GPM first featured Chelsea and Chris along with their 3 children in 2016. We asked how parenting has changed for them, as their relationship status and identities changed over the years.
“My parenting style has definitely changed since I first became a mother at the age of eighteen,” Chelsea says. “With my first two there was a lot of trial and error, but I always strove to do the best with what I had.”
Chris feels that his experience of going from being a mom to a dad didn’t change too much in the way he parented. “I am just now parenting from a place of truer authenticity,” he says. “I’m hoping the kids see what I’ve done and show them that you have to choose yourself first in life in order to be happy.”
Learn how this family has evolved since we last featured them in the article Catching Up with the @LBC PartyofFive by Gary Hurtubise in the free 2024-2025 Annual New York Gay Parent Magazine available here: https://bit.ly/3wczqgj
To learn more about Chelsea, Chris, and their kids, find them on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, @lbcpartyof5. The couple also started a podcast under the same handle called, “Chelsea & Chris on This”.
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